|
|||||
|
Many years ago at the EMP Pop Conference I heard a scholar and avant-garde musician named Ned Sublette deliver perhaps the greatest impromptu speaking performance I’ve ever experienced in that setting, or possibly anywhere at all! He was then about to publish his landmark study of the Cuban influence on global music, and . . . → Read More: Ned Sublette and His Dazzling Array of Talents, By Tom Kipp A couple of years ago, National Public Radio ran a story about people recalling what they had done on the day before September 11, 2001. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the story is that people actually recalled in detail what had happened that day, as opposed to September 11th itself. A few people, . . . → Read More: Two Days before September 11, By Chuck Strom Passage from Escape From the Planet of the Apes. Zira: I should have said that chimpanzees had no part in the destruction of Earth. Only the gorillas and the orangutans. E.2.: What’s the difference? You’re all monkeys. Cornelius: Please do not use the word ‘monkey.’ We find it offensive. As an . . . → Read More: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment: Their Conscience Drove Them to Starve, By Mark Erickson http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/17/the-co-author-of-hubris-on-torture-secrets-and-what-we-still-dont-know/ – a documentary special hosted by Rachel Maddow tonight, 9 p.m. ET on MSNBC. The news media are as much to blame as the Bush administration — read the article we published on November 19, 2001 in which Enver Masud wrote: In an October 1999 interview, former United Nations Special Commission chief inspector . . . → Read More: ‘Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War’ In the months before the United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, leaders of the Bush (#43) regime, i.e., National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Vice President Dick Cheney, made statements to various organizations such as the United Nations, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the House+Senate Armed Forces Committees, . . . → Read More: Some Iraq War Questions Still Unanswered a Decade Later, By Mark Erickson Jerry Rubin died 18 years ago in a Los Angeles hospital. An anti-Vietnam War demonstrator during the 1960’s, he and Abbie Hoffman (and many others) marched on and surrounded the Pentagon in ’67, led the riots at the Chicago ’68 Democratic Convention, and inspired John & Yoko to campaign against Nixon in ’72. By . . . → Read More: Jerry Rubin – Entrepreneur, Yes, Republican, No, By Pat Thomas I LIKE that we kill trees to make books. I love trees. I’m leaning up against one right now. I feel like a hunter of the Great Plains standing over the last gasp of a dying Buffalo when I hold a good book; admiring its achievement and its power. This book used to be . . . → Read More: BBC Storyville: The Love of Books – A Sarajevo Story, By Davin Michael Stedman Before his appalling murder on December 4th, 1969, Fred Hampton, head of the Chicago Panthers, formed an alliance with the Puerto Rican Young Lords and the Patriot Party (consisting of impoverished Chicago whites). Hampton announced this multiracial banding as “a Rainbow Coalition,” years before Jesse Jackson co-opted the term for his own political . . . → Read More: Fred Hampton – Iam a Revolutionary, By Pat Thomas Well, I fear as if I’m going to be accused of high crimes and misdemeanors, but less than a quarter the way through Lincoln I worried that if I saw one more cliche I was going to throw up. I wanted this movie so bad to be good. No. I wanted it to . . . → Read More: Lincoln – A Movie Review, By Gordon Jack Schultz There are more Christmas Markets across the world than ever before, but have you ever stopped to wonder where they originated from? Christmas Markets light up many of the most famous towns and cities in the world during the festive season, and they bring delight to most who visit them. In recent years more . . . → Read More: The History of the Christmas Market Everybody who knows music knows Beethoven had a big ol’ AFRO. His 9th rocks so hard. Makes you want to light a big ol’ blunt and conduct the symphony with a wooden baseball bat on your roof top. This is the Deffest Jam of the 19th Century, NO DOUBT. I’m just saying… if . . . → Read More: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, By Davin Michael Stedman One of the most popular videos in Sweden today. Allowing a five year old boy (and his slightly older siblings) to listen to A & the C was like feeding them all giant Pixy sticks washed down with Mountain Dew–they went absolutely ape. Dancing. Shrieking, because “their voices are funny, Mom!” Jumping off the couches. Jumping from the rocking chair to the couches. . . . → Read More: Alvin and the Chipmunks – Christmas Song, By Jude Rogland Payne The immortal Harry “The Hipster” Gibson. So all you folks quit puttin’ hipsters down. After all, they’ve been around for about three quarters of a century. – Peter Stampfel [Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.] My friend Gillian Gaar loved this story when I shared it with her many years ago, and asked me to write it up while . . . → Read More: Tom Kipp Encounters Dave Grohl and Gwar… Deep in the Woods Past Fairfax, VA! (A 20th Anniversary Reminiscence) |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2013 East Portland Blog - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
